From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Nov 27 19:50: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.shadow.net (mail.shadow.net [204.177.71.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90C314BF5 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reason@shadow.net) Received: from ararat.excedone.com (mail@ppp1-195.shadow.net [207.17.59.215]) by mail.shadow.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03820 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:49:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ararat ident=vladik) by ararat.excedone.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG id 11rvKe-0000TM-00; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:49:00 -0500 From: Vladislav To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q]Extended Partion Slice for FBsd Install? Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:47:02 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <99112722245800.00761@ararat> In-Reply-To: <99112722245800.00761@ararat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99112722485801.00761@ararat> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, Just read Linux+FreeBSD mini Howto and it answered my question (http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-2.html) I cannot do it. Sorry, I shoud have read it earlier, I tried the Docs available during the install process and the handbook ( I have a printed copy) but it was not there. Vladislav On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Vladislav wrote: > -------------------------------- > FreeBSD 3.3 (release). > PII 266 dual > Soyo motherboard with LX chipset (latest BIOS is installed). > ------------------------------- > Hello, > I am in a quest to install a bunch of Operating systems on my new > 20 Gb hard disk (IDE, Maxtor Diamond Plus) > > Because I cannot have more then 4 primary partitions on a Disk, > I need to put FreeBSD and Linux on two separate slices (logical > disks) of an extended partion. > Linux can be installed, but when I try FreeBSD, I do not see my > logical drive (6) during the Fdisking process in FreeBSD install (actually, > I do not see any of my logical drives). > The only thing I see is the extended partion wd0s1, wd0s2, wd0s3, wd0s4 (this > is my extended partion). > What I want to see is wd0s5 (Linux) and wd0s6 (FreeBSD) > and wd0s7 (OpenBSD). > How did I get my logical and primary drives? .... > Well... I used Linux's fdisk program that allowed my to allocate > all the slices. In there I specificaly assigned /dev/hda6 to be > of type 0x5a (In freebsd this would be /dev/wd0s6, type 165). > > Am I doing something wrong, or am I doing something impossible? > > Another thing, may be this matters.... > When using Linux's fdisk, I had to manually specify number of heads > and cylinders, because somehow it was getting it incorrectly (probably because > of LBA enabled on my IDE).... But FreeBSD gets it right (and there is no option > to specify disk geometry anyways in its disk label program). > > And by the way, I do see the logical slices just fine in /dev (I try running > fixit with life fs cdrom). > It is just that I somehow cannot see them during that fdisk process. > > -- > Thanks in advance for any help, > Vladislav > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message